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The Meringue War
… the current cupcake fad. Tinder prefers to explore dishes uncommon to fine-dining dessert menus. One year it was wet … gonna tell me you like it from a picture?” Instagram, he points out, embellishes food to the point of obfuscating its … It’s especially useful for those who work far from such foodie capitals as New York and San Francisco, allowing them to …
First Love
… the stadium light like torn up notes. When the traffic died some nightbirds stuck in citrus along MacDonald Avenue … shade. I remember thinking I’d remember this and it would come to me later on its own when I’d just be walking …
Me and the Sea
… life. Life had so fatigued me, and especially such of its components as the drunken mugs of people, the eternal crunch … low over the sea and was a perky, pink-orange color, like coals smoldering in the night. But the sea seemed … place for myself to lie. On the sand I would spread a soldier’s overcoat with a thick nap, which I had discovered …
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Alice Munro Honored
… others; and an essay on her work by Marcela Valdes. Our website will feature an interview of Munro by Lisa Dickler …
R. P. Blackmur: America’s Best Critic
… dead now for 16 years. This seems long enough to warrant a comprehensive look at his achievement, where achievement … published a collected edition of his poems. Critical studies have begun to appear, and a full-dress biography is in … little magazines, but he lost this job two years later. At 26 he married, but life with the painter Helen Dickson was a …
Watching Marilyn
… came around the corner of the building to report to his companion that there was no one on the premises.”Three other … or difficult passages, his forehead leapt into the verticals of a frown. By the time my husband came back from … for no reason be lost. Joseph leaned forward and said, “Oh wow! She’s fantastic. Why don’t I get lucky and find a woman …
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